University of Wisconsin Press, 1992 Paper: 978-0-87972-572-3 Library of Congress Classification E169.12.P63 1992
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ABOUT THIS BOOK Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Getting to Know Us An Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture: What is this Stuff that Dreams are Made Of?
Section 1
Taking Popular Culture Seriously
Seeing What We've Said: The Top Ten American Box-Office Hits Taken Seriously
Lause,
Kevin
How Much Can You Swallow?
Miller,
Mark Crispin
New Legends for Old
Brunvand,
Jan Harold
The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss
Lurie,
Alison
Section 2
Songs of the Unseen Road: Myths, Beliefs and Values in Popular Culture
Four Morality Tales
Reich,
Robert
Culture and Continuity: Three American Myths in the Prints of Currier & Ives
Nachbar,
Jack
The American Myth of Success: Visions and Revisions
Marsden,
Madonna
Endless Love Will Keep Us Together: The Myth of Romantic Love and Contemporary Popular Movie Love Themes
Kile,
Crystal
Section 3
Living in the Material World: The Meaning and Power of Popular Icons
For Whom the Bell Tolled
Patton,
Phil
The Malling of America
Kowinski,
William Severini
“Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses”: The Barbie Doll in American Society
Motz,
Marilyn Ferris
Section 4
Breaking the Mold: The Meaning and Significance of Stereotypes in Popular Culture
The VALS Typology
Mitchell,
Arnold
From the Plantation to Bel-Air: A Brief History of Black Stereotypes
Geist,
Christopher D.
Nelson,
Angela M.S.
Yellow Devil Doctors and Opium Dens: The Yellow Peril Stereotype in Mass Media Entertainment
Hoppenstand,
Gary
One Size Does Not Fit All: Being Beautiful, Thin and Female in America
Caputi,
Jane
Nance,
Susan
Section 5
Look! Up in the Sky! (And Right Next Door): Popular Heroes in America
What Makes Superman So Darned American?
Engle,
Gary
Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age
Nash,
Roderick
The Rap on Rap
Samuels,
David
The Wretched of the Hearth: The Undainty Feminism of Roseanne Arnold
Ehrenreich,
Barbara
Section 6
All Together Now: Popular Rituals in America Family Reunion
Fields,
Jean
Game Day U.S.A.
The South - Willie Morris
The Midwest - Frank Conroy
The West - Richard Hoffer
Halloween: Rite of Season, Rite of Passage
Santino,
Jack
Section 7
Would You Repeat That—Please!: The Meaningful Delights of Formula in the Popular Arts
The Western
Schatz,
Thomas
Television Soap Opera: “Incest, Bigamy, and Fatal Disease”
Derry,
Charles
Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory
Evans,
Walter
Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s
Hubbord,
Rita C.
Section 8
Thirteenth Generation Born: 1961-1981
Strauss,
William
Howe,
Neil
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University of Wisconsin Press, 1992 Paper: 978-0-87972-572-3
Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Getting to Know Us An Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture: What is this Stuff that Dreams are Made Of?
Section 1
Taking Popular Culture Seriously
Seeing What We've Said: The Top Ten American Box-Office Hits Taken Seriously
Lause,
Kevin
How Much Can You Swallow?
Miller,
Mark Crispin
New Legends for Old
Brunvand,
Jan Harold
The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss
Lurie,
Alison
Section 2
Songs of the Unseen Road: Myths, Beliefs and Values in Popular Culture
Four Morality Tales
Reich,
Robert
Culture and Continuity: Three American Myths in the Prints of Currier & Ives
Nachbar,
Jack
The American Myth of Success: Visions and Revisions
Marsden,
Madonna
Endless Love Will Keep Us Together: The Myth of Romantic Love and Contemporary Popular Movie Love Themes
Kile,
Crystal
Section 3
Living in the Material World: The Meaning and Power of Popular Icons
For Whom the Bell Tolled
Patton,
Phil
The Malling of America
Kowinski,
William Severini
“Seen Through Rose-Tinted Glasses”: The Barbie Doll in American Society
Motz,
Marilyn Ferris
Section 4
Breaking the Mold: The Meaning and Significance of Stereotypes in Popular Culture
The VALS Typology
Mitchell,
Arnold
From the Plantation to Bel-Air: A Brief History of Black Stereotypes
Geist,
Christopher D.
Nelson,
Angela M.S.
Yellow Devil Doctors and Opium Dens: The Yellow Peril Stereotype in Mass Media Entertainment
Hoppenstand,
Gary
One Size Does Not Fit All: Being Beautiful, Thin and Female in America
Caputi,
Jane
Nance,
Susan
Section 5
Look! Up in the Sky! (And Right Next Door): Popular Heroes in America
What Makes Superman So Darned American?
Engle,
Gary
Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age
Nash,
Roderick
The Rap on Rap
Samuels,
David
The Wretched of the Hearth: The Undainty Feminism of Roseanne Arnold
Ehrenreich,
Barbara
Section 6
All Together Now: Popular Rituals in America Family Reunion
Fields,
Jean
Game Day U.S.A.
The South - Willie Morris
The Midwest - Frank Conroy
The West - Richard Hoffer
Halloween: Rite of Season, Rite of Passage
Santino,
Jack
Section 7
Would You Repeat That—Please!: The Meaningful Delights of Formula in the Popular Arts
The Western
Schatz,
Thomas
Television Soap Opera: “Incest, Bigamy, and Fatal Disease”
Derry,
Charles
Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory
Evans,
Walter
Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s
Hubbord,
Rita C.
Section 8
Thirteenth Generation Born: 1961-1981
Strauss,
William
Howe,
Neil
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